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Best Buy Leans into Personalization with Mobile App Updates

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These enhancements to our app are further examples of how we’re continuing to leverage data and technology to personalize and humanize consumer electronics like nobody else can,” said Brian Tilzer, Chief Data, Analytics and Technology Officer at Best Buy in a statement.

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Best Buy Canada to Operate 165 Small-Format Bell Canada Stores Under Renamed Banner

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The stores, which had been branded as The Source , a wholly owned subsidiary of Bell, will be renamed Best Buy Express and offer both Best Buy consumer electronics and telecom services from Bell. Best Buy Canada has partnered with Bell Canada to operate 165 stores in malls and smaller and mid-sized communities across the country.

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Best Buy Adds DoorDash as On-Demand Delivery Partner

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Best Buy has partnered with DoorDash to offer delivery of its consumer electronics products in under one hour, on average. We’re thrilled to welcome Best Buy to DoorDash as our first national consumer electronics retailer on the marketplace,” said Fuad Hannon, VP of New Verticals at DoorDash in a statement.

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Circuit City Plans to Curate Shop-in-Shops Using its Electronics Expertise

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These “Powered by Circuit City” partnerships will be centered on store-in-store concepts designed to seamlessly integrate the retailer’s electronics expertise and global brand awareness with other retail platforms, both online and in-store.

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Forrester Forecast: Online’s Share of U.S. Sales to Top 29% by 2029

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BOPIS sales got a huge boost from the COVID era and have remained popular for many consumers even as the pandemic has faded.

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Ron Johnson’s Enjoy Technology Files for Bankruptcy, Set to be Sold

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The idea was to bring the store experience to consumers’ homes via a technology-powered “mobile store” operation, with an initial focus on telecommunications and consumer electronics ( AT&T and Apple are partners in the U.S.). Johnson co-founded Enjoy in 2014 after leaving JCPenney and currently serves as its CEO.

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Look to the Skies, Dallas: Walmart Expands Drone Delivery to 30 DFW Metroplex Municipalities

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Retailer Unveils Search Powered by Generative AI Walmart announced the drone delivery expansion at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where Walmart President and CEO Doug McMillon delivered a keynote address.